Very Poor Upper Management - Consultant Protiviti Employee Review

1.0
26 Sept 2010
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Pros

Personal atmosphere; overall good, qualified individuals; good leadership from senior consultants

Cons

Upper management is stale and tends to live on clouds. Horrible morale amongst the Consultant and Consultants II's who are treated more like machines rather than people. Work is very repetitive if you get stuck doing SOX 404 engagements. Extremely cliquey management who will agree with whatever the ranking directors say regardless if true. Review system in place only has formal reviews on projects worked 80 hours or more, which means you may only receive one review a quarter, and are often cliquey and biased to personal feelings rather than professional.

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

The WLB, people, and projects

Cons

The salary is below that of most other consulting firms

3.0
29 Mar 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

1) Chicago office has a good culture, overall. It’s not perfect but most of the people are great. 2) Work-life balance score has been solid (about 5+ years of insights here) 3) Although it was not great this year, Incentive compensation has overall been pretty good over the course of 5+ years. Much better than big 4 in my experience.

Cons

1) Since 2023, the culture hasn’t been great for a variety of reasons (mainly due to sluggish performance and growing too fast) 2) It feels more like a temporary staffing agency versus a consulting firm for a lot of the time. 3) There has been an awkward push for a return to the office and more business development focus that is in stark contrast to what most Protiviti people value. 4) Most people I talk to say they are not motivated by most of the MDs they interact with (this is significant in my opinion).

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